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    our progressing society. Turkle’s argument is one based in ethical and philosophical roots and challenges our current definition of what it means to be “alive”. This issue becomes more pressing the more sophisticated, multifaceted, and versatile our robots and machines become. Our era, which Turkle coins as “the robotic moment”, offers a chance to redefine life to not only be limited by biological standards, but rather be based on a combination of…

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    The Glass Cage

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    In the book “The Glass Cage How Our Computers Are Changing Us” by Nicholas Carr, discusses about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Automation has become a huge beneficial factor in the world as we know it. Everywhere we look computers and robots are slowly taking away certain jobs and tasks, but have substantially improved our lives. Without manufacturing…

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    He supports this first claim by discussing a robot made by Google, that beat the best player in the world at a game called Go, which has so many configurations that it couldn’t be easily perfected by a computer like chess can be. He uses all three modes of persuasion in this example. He uses evidence…

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    Descent Of Man Analysis

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    precondition for the perpetration of sustained injustices, especially slavery, genocide, and racial subjugation. Humanity’s predisposition toward dehumanization can be well supported by an in depth analysis drawn by the written works of “Rossum’s Universal Robots”, by Karel Capek, and the combination of Charles Darwin’s “The Descent…

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    La Vida Robot Analysis

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    personal and group problems, as a team and as individuals. Oscar Vazquez wanted a career in the military but ran into some problems when he went to a meeting to become a soldier. The team also ran into the problem of not having enough money for the robot and had to keep a tight budget for materials. In paragraph 15 it explains that Oscar Vazquez’s parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico without proper paper work, not allowing him to receive a scholarship, nor get into the military. This…

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    Wall-E Character Analysis

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    In the movie Wall-E, the “Hero” Wall-E, is a robot that was made to clean up Earth’s garbage after Earth had no way to sustain any life on Earth. The role Wall-E plays in the movie is a hero because he had found the last plant life on Earth, it was a call to action. Eva is the robot that meets Wall-E while he’s making squares out of garbage. Eva has a deadly personality that also makes her quick witted. Eva’s role in the story is an ALLY and HERO because she assists Wall-E in saving the…

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    Driverless cars - they feel their surroundings with such techniques as radar, lidar, GPS, odometry, & computer vision. They update their maps based on sensory input, allowing the vehicles to keep track of their position, even in changing conditions, or in a uncharted environment. These machines have control systems that are capable of analyzing sensory data to distinguish between different cars on the road. Now, some people do not exactly support these vehicles. ‘Oh, they’ll destroy the…

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    How would it feel to be part of a dystopian world where everything is controlled by the governments trying to make it utopian? Just imagine yourself being controlled like robots and living in a place where independent thoughts and freethinking are not allowed. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is set in a dystopian society. The giver has two adaptations, a movie, and a book. Both the movie adaptation and book adaptation share many similarities and some differences. There are many and some of them are…

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    In his essay “Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must- Take Our Jobs,” Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired magazine focuses not on the economic effect automations have caused for the countless number of laborious jobs, but on how robotics have created millions of jobs for people in entirely new fields. Kelly, argues that robots have become a revolutionary outbreak since more can get done in a timely matter. But Kelly’s argument is completely bias because even though Kelly brings up many…

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    For example, technology is advancing every year, things are getting more complex. New phones are being made, new computers, new things are being invented and advanced as we speak.Soon in the near future we won’t even have to walk, we’ll have robots that will do everything for us. There are positive things, and disastrous things that come with the advancement of technology. External influences in technology have more negative impacts than positive. In the article, Talking To Our Devices it…

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